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European Heart Journal Advance Access originally published online on November 13, 2006
European Heart Journal 2006 27(23):2896-2899; doi:10.1093/eurheartj/ehl368
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© The European Society of Cardiology 2006. All rights reserved. For Permissions, please e-mail: journals.permissions@oxfordjournals.org

Hotline sessions of the 28th European Congress of Cardiology/World Congress of Cardiology 2006

Nick Clappers and Freek W.A. Verheugt*

Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Centre, Heartcentre, 670 Cardiology, PO Box 9101, 6500 HB Nijmegen, The Netherlands

Received 21 September 2006; revised 12 October 2006; accepted 19 October 2006; online publish-ahead-of-print 13 November 2006.

* Corresponding author. Tel: +31 24 3614533; fax: +31 24 3540537. E-mail address: f.verheugt@cardio.umcn.nl

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The 28th Congress of the European Society of Cardiology this year was organized together with the World Heart Federation and was presented as the World Congress of Cardiology. During the congress, held in Barcelona in September 2006, the results of 11 new studies were presented in two Hotline sessions. One of these, the PEP-CHF study has already been published in the European Heart Journal.1 Preliminary summaries of the other 10 studies are reported here.

The EuroAction study was presented by David Wood from London, UK. This cluster randomized study assessed a strategy to improve adherence to evidence-based medicine in primary and secondary prevention of cardiovascular disease. A nurse-led multi-disciplinary prevention programme (intervention arm) was compared to usual care with respect to achieving preventive treatment goals as formulated in the European preventive cardiology guidelines. The patients' partners or direct relatives also participated in the study. The primary endpoints . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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